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Pharmacology of ginsenosides: a literature review

The therapeutic potential of ginseng has been studied extensively, and ginsenosides, the active components of ginseng, are shown to be involved in modulating multiple physiological activities. This article will review the structure, systemic transformation and bioavailability of ginsenosides before...

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Autores principales: Leung, Kar Wah, Wong, Alice Sze-Tsai
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20537195
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-5-20
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description The therapeutic potential of ginseng has been studied extensively, and ginsenosides, the active components of ginseng, are shown to be involved in modulating multiple physiological activities. This article will review the structure, systemic transformation and bioavailability of ginsenosides before illustration on how these molecules exert their functions via interactions with steroidal receptors. The multiple biological actions make ginsenosides as important resources for developing new modalities. Yet, low bioavailability of ginsenoside is one of the major hurdles needs to be overcome to advance its use in clinical settings.
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spelling pubmed-28931802010-06-29 Pharmacology of ginsenosides: a literature review Leung, Kar Wah Wong, Alice Sze-Tsai Chin Med Review The therapeutic potential of ginseng has been studied extensively, and ginsenosides, the active components of ginseng, are shown to be involved in modulating multiple physiological activities. This article will review the structure, systemic transformation and bioavailability of ginsenosides before illustration on how these molecules exert their functions via interactions with steroidal receptors. The multiple biological actions make ginsenosides as important resources for developing new modalities. Yet, low bioavailability of ginsenoside is one of the major hurdles needs to be overcome to advance its use in clinical settings. BioMed Central 2010-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2893180/ /pubmed/20537195 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-5-20 Text en Copyright ©2010 Leung and Wong; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20537195
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